Close-ups of fine detail of the ancient skill of quillwork embroidery--brightly coloured geometric designs on high-ankled, Seneca-type moccasins. These moccasins are over one hundred years old, from the fabled Speyer Collection that was repatriated from Germany by the National Museum of Man in 1975.
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Includes: Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer, Canada Vignettes: The Horse, Canada Vignettes: News Canada, Canada Vignettes: Spence's Republic, Canada Vignettes: Lady Frances Simpson, Canada Vignettes: Holidays, Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs, Canada Vignettes: Trees, Canada Vignettes: Logger, Canada Vignettes: Faces, Canada Vignettes: Toronto, Canada Vignettes: Newfoundland, Canada Vignettes: Skier, Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook, Canada Vignettes: Land Bridge, Canada Vignettes: Port Royal, Canada Vignettes: Trading Post, Canada Vignettes: Flin Flon, Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner, Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family, Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf, Canada Vignettes: The Performer, Canada Vignettes: Men of the Deeps, Cape Breton, Canada Vignettes: Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary, Canada Vignettes: Fort Prince of Wales, Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable, Canada Vignettes: Acadian Quadrille, Canada Vignettes: Sodbusters, Canada Vignettes: December Lights, Canada Vignettes: Alouette, Canada Vignettes: Moccasins, Canada Vignettes: Dance, Canada Vignettes: Riverdale Lion, Canada Vignettes: Instant French, Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth, Canada Vignettes: Wop May, Canada Vignettes: The Egg, Canada Vignettes: Indian Pipe, Canada Vignettes: Métis Coat, Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe, Canada Vignettes: Unity Pole, Canada Vignettes: Delta Plane, Canada Vignettes: Bluenose 1921-1946, Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine, Canada Vignettes: Love on Wheels, Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz, Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Don Messer 1910-1973, Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Marg Osburne 1927-1977 Pt. 1, Canada Vignettes: McIntosh, Canada Vignettes: Canada's Snowbirds, Canada Vignettes: Calliope, Canada Vignettes: Dancing Dolls, Canada Vignettes: Klondike Gold, Canada Vignettes: Arctic Mission, Canada Vignettes: Arctic Seascape, Canada Vignettes: Angel of Death, Canada Vignettes: Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian, Canada Vignettes: Countdown, Canada Vignettes: Ice, Canada Vignettes: Emergency Numbers, Canada Vignettes: Catapult Canada, Canada Vignettes: Mussel Mud, Canada Vignettes: The Move
